Yerbolat Bolatov

Yerbolat Bolatov (16 September 1980-14 May 2002) was an al-Qaeda militant from Kazakhstan who was responsible for carrying out a suicidal mission against the US Marine Corps in Karam, Afghanistan in 2002.

Biogrpahy
Yerbolat Bolatov was born in Karagandy, Kazakhstan to a family of Sunni Muslim Kazakhs. Bolatov was radicalized as a young man in the 1990s and joined al-Qaeda, heading to training camps in Afghanistan. Bolatov was one of the many Central Asian fighters who would join the Islamist cause in the 1990s, although most of them came from Uzbekistan. Bolatov fought in the Afghanistan War when the United States invaded in 2001, and he was given a special mission to launch a suicide attack against the US Marine Corps at their camp in Karam. Bolatov entered the camp complex armed with an AK-74u assault rifle and began firing on American soldiers, killing three men in the central office building. However, he was gunned down by nearby Marines before his rampage could continue.